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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
May 30, 2021
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
Facing Texas’ anti-Trans legislation, what does our faith tell us about our responsibility to respond?
Chalice Lighting
Sacred flame,
bloom in our hearts,
bloom in our minds,
bloom in our bones,
bloom in our eyes,
bloom in our mouths,
bloom in our hands.Make us each a garden of love, shining, crackling, burning.
We gather today to remember beauty and the abundance of beauty.
We gather to share the beauty we have found in this world with one another, in love.
Call to Worship
Behold now your flowers their liveliness and beauty fashioned by the Earth and all the invisible forces of creation. Each plant’s energy within it moves and transforms. This collection of atoms is simply in the process of flowering. Do you see their other lives? This flower has been seed, dirt, sunshine, insect, beast and star, and one hundred thousand other things and more. Witness the infinite becomings of this flower as the flower process witnesses the infinite becomings of you.
– Bis Thornton
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. – The King Center
Meditation Reading
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibililty, not this: In order to love you I must make you something else. That’s what domination is about. In order to be close to you I must possess you, remake you, and recast you.
– Bell Hooks
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